katie cusumano

@k-e-c.bsky.social

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writing, mostly, about culture and the outdoors. words in nyt mag, orion, longreads & beyond; assistant nonfiction editor for agni. based in portland, now. signal = kec.51. katherinecusumano.com

screen shot of a paragraph with "If you don't believe your own bullshit, the fans aren't going to believe your bullshit" highlighted
APPROVED WITNESSES (MUST BE PRACTICING): School Principal/Vice Principal, Teacher/Lecturer, School Secretary, Pre-School Manager/Montessori Teacher, Medical Doctor, Dentist, Vet, Nurse, Physiotherapist, Speech Therapist, Pharmacist, Manager/Assistant Manager of Bank/Credit Union, Member of An Garda Siochána/Police Officer, Elected Public Representative, Commissioner for Oaths/Notary Public, Peace Commissioner, Engineer, Lawyer, Accountant, Member of the Clergy.
screen shot of a paragraph from an essay about light pollution. a highlighted sentence reads: "And most of us don't even know what we're missing. According to light pollution lore, after the 1994 Northridge earthquake caused mass power outages in the Los Angeles area, 911 received several calls from alarmed residents asking about the strange flickers in the sky—they'd never seen the Milky Way. Today, one-third of humanity can't see it.
an image of a hand holding open a magazine page with a headline reading "Troubled Water." the page background is a diaphanous shred of algae in a glass tank.
a magazine spread with a wide image of a mountain rising up behind a turquoise lake. beside the photo, the headline reads "Who's In Charge, Here?"
newspaper page with a one-eyed monster crying a single tear. the headline reads: "How to Say Goodbye"
a stack of magazines on a wood table, with Issue 13 of Trails on top
authors alex castellanos and aashna avachat sit on stage at the portland book festival during a panel moderated by ... me
photo of a page from “The Sounding of the Whale” by D. Graham Burnett. a sentence is underlined: “it is very hard to say anything that is actually right about anything at all.”
screen shot of a text conversation: "i talked to some teens lol" "'i talk to some teens' could be a line in your reporting bio lol"
horseshoe lake, washington
excerpt from Ted Chiang's New Yorker essay on generative AI: "It reduces the amount of intention in the world"
randomly arranged notecards that I have to organize into a coherent story with a beginning middle and end
VF headline, from a story dated 4/17, declaring Roman Reigns "WWE's Next Great Crossover Star"
email text from a source who seemed surprised that I had tracked him down...
screen cap of an NYT article: "I'm not screaming, 'aliens!'" said Nikole Lewis, an exoplanetary scientist at Cornell University. "But I always reserve my right to scream 'aliens!'"
a pop-up on a Google form with the generative AI sparkle emoji that reads "Help me write," which I did not ask for
November 9, 2024 Prose Poem by Tom Snarsky: Another day in the ruinous world, eating peanut butter off a knife
david lynch shrine outside twede’s diner in north bend, washington
david lynch's "fish kit" — an annotated dissected fish
a story on the back page of the new york times for kids december issue describing how to create your own card game using a traditional 52-card deck
excerpt from Margaret Atwood's statement about her 11/19 reading at Oregon State University: "It seems that there is a graduate student strike going on, for higher wages and a shorter contract that won't lock people in for 5 years. I am told that many items have been agreed upon and that a settlement is close. I wouldn't cross a picket line uninvited. The University gave me the option of cancelling. The strikers, on the other hand, said they didn’t want to cancel or disrupt the event – thereby p*ssing off 1200 people, which would not have helped their position. They only want to gain attention for their cause. As you can see, I am helping them do that. They have a website for donations of food etc. at; vp_solidarity@cge6069.org"